Best 389 quotes in «classic quotes» category

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.

My favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber. It's a classic and I can pretty much recite the entire movie.

My grandma Ricky - that's where I got classic look from. She was the most stylish person ever. She had her own clothing store and even her furniture was stylish. I got my "Flashy, but classy" motto from her, too. Whenever she walked in the room, she was always the most stylish person in the room.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing that you're terrified of, you bring it about - and even worse.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

Parineeta is a classic love story.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

Saturday The 14th movie is a cult classic. And you know another one like that that I did, is Three O'Clock High. People come up to me about those two all the time. Film schools even study Three O'Clock High. Shot for shot, it's a textbook.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic.

Sleep when your baby sleeps. Everyone knows this classic tip, but I say why stop there? Scream when your baby screams. Take Benadryl when your baby takes Benadryl. And walk around pantless when your baby walks around pantless.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who do that have had really rich experiences. And it is obvious that that line of experimentation can continue.

So this is feminist corner then.

Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.

Tell the children the truth.

That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

The classic literature is always modern.

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

The French don't know how to cook breakfast.

The key strengths of civilizations are also their central weaknesses. You can see that from the fact that the golden ages of civilizations are very often right before the collapse. The Renaissance in Italy was very much like the Classic Maya. The apogee was the collapse. The Golden Age of Greece was the same thing. We see this pattern repeated continuously, and it is one that should make us nervous. I just heard Bill Gates say that we are living in the greatest time in history. Now you can understand why Bill Gates would think that, but even if he is right, that is an ominous thing to say.

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

The net neutrality game is to make everybody the same so that there's no difference and the prices are the same and if these Millennials got their way nothing would cost anything. But it's classic. This is a great illustration. Net neutrality is being stood upside down which is good because it's pro-competition, it offers customers options.

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.